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  • I furnitured!

    I built this planter box, along with one three times as long as this one, out of cedar

    This little table for my porch out of some lovely local white oak. It's a humble little thing but I'm rather proud of it because it's the first project I made with genuine mortise and tenon joints, some chopped by hand with a chisel.

    A plant stand, also out of white oak. This one has slanted and tapered legs, and Avril Lavigne wrote a song about it. Why DID I have to make things so complicated?

    And two bookcases from birch plywood and white pine. I was particularly careful planning this one, and managed to get the carcass and shelves of each bookcase out of a single sheet of 3/4" plywood, though it does mean the grain direction on the fixed bottom shelf doesn't make sense.

  • Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.

    PIC

    Excepting the center-rear plants and two epiphytes (Lowes), everything sourced or created locally.

    Substrate: rock (found and cleaned), charcoal & dirt (made myself)

    Contents: Mosses, dead and alive, green onions, tiny pine trees, purple hearts (swiped from the gas station trimmings), driftwood (found hiking and canoeing, power washed), reindeer moss (not quite visible)

    Lighting: Thrift store light with various grow bulbs, still painting and assembling. Not thrilled with the color, can't get the high color-fidelity (CRI) grow bulbs I've used before, had to mix it up best I could.

    Animals: Nothing so far, but I want to pack it with detritivores like millipedes, springtails and roly polys. Wife is getting me a chameleon, probably tonight! Not sure how to keep the bug population going with him in there. Ideas? Rocks to hide under? I may also get a Pac Man frog.

    It'll be way cooler and different in a year. Just put the round, green moss in, hasn't settled naturally, stuff like that. The pines will be worked over as bonsais, some stuff may die or turn out inappropriate, wood may move around, etc.

    EDIT: Got the chameleon! "Doctor Lector". Still working on insect populations, but we got 20 crickets to start him off.

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